1. rapid prototyping
3d printing
laser cutting
cnc routing
laser engraving
knife plotting
cnc milling
vinyl cutting

2. digital
manufacture

3. digital manufacture man·u·fac·ture (mny-fkchr)
1.a. To make or process (a raw material) into a finished product, especially by means of a large-scale industrial operation.
b. To make or process (a product), especially with the use of industrial machines.
2. To create, produce, or turn out in a mechanical manner.

4. digital
manufacture?

5. digital
fabrication

6. digital
fabrication
fab•ri•ca•tion (ˌfæb rɪˈkeɪ ʃən)  1. the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
2. something fabricated, esp. an untruthful statement.

7. digital
fabrication
subtractive
additive

8. subtractive
removing material to fabricate an object

9. additive
adding material to fabricate an object

10. why you should?

11. the ability to make things we may not otherwise be able to:
accuracy:
digital fabrication machines can perform to within very tight dimensional tolerances
consistency:
machines are more predictable than humans
repeatability:
the same object can be made again and again and again and again...
the ability to make things we may not otherwise be able to:
digital fabrication machines can make objects of geometrical complexity that would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, with traditional tools

12. why you shouldn’t

13. Lack of confidence in our abilities:
laziness:
digital fabrication shouldn’t be used because we can’t be bothered using a more appropriate tool
poor making skills:
digital fabrication is not a substitute for our inadequacies
lack of imagination:
a bad idea is a bad idea – it won’t become a good one by using digital fabrication but we will be able to make it again and again and again and again!!!
Lack of confidence in our abilities:
as a species, we’ve evolved our cognitive and practical skills over millions of years; our brains and hands are capable of working together to a level of such subtlety and complexity no machine could ever hope to replicate

14. 6%

15. 3D Printing
71% of people say they know very little or nothing about 3D printers while one in five (19%) say they know at least a fair amount.
Only 6% of people say they are interested in owning a 3D printer, though this rose to 20% among those who know a great deal or a fair amount about 3D printers.
This suggests that demand will rise if people become familiar with 3D printers and perhaps understand better how this emerging technology can be useful for them.
Men are twice as likely as women to want a 3D printer (8% vs. 4%), and those aged (9%) are more keen than those aged 65 and over (1%).
Southerners are most interested (10%) in owning a 3D printer - but curiously Londoners were no different from the rest of the country (4%)
Ipsos MORI: for the Design Museum

17. £500
£1790
£770
£1190
RepRap
£1390
£1590
£1500
£2000
£1690
£730
£1990
£550

18. 3d printing fantasy

19. 3d printing fantasy

20. 3d printing fantasy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT1-ftYA5wM
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21. what is 3d printing? FDM: fused deposition modelling
Polyjet: photopolymer resin printing
SLS: selective laser sintering
SLA: stereolithography: UV cured resin

22. download or create?